Ātreya Ṛṣi: Jñānagamya prabhu is interested in making a very big film.
Prabhupāda: What is the subject matter?
Ātreya Ṛṣi: The subject matter is devotees in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. How they learn, how they study, how they go on saṅkīrtana.
Prabhupāda: They are seeing already.
Jñānagamya: They are seeing in real life, but so many people, they do not know of devotees, and films would go to every little town and village, and there would be chanting in the film, and there would be interest in what the devotees are doing.
Prabhupāda: But their opinion is not in favor, as you said.
Jñānagamya: But the film can change the opinion. Many times...
Prabhupāda: That is... How they can change?
Jñānagamya: Great books have done this. Uncle Tom's Cabin started a whole war against slavery in the United states. Books and films are very potent. They can make public opinion.
Prabhupāda: Books are different thing, we are publishing.
Jñānagamya: In America the Negro situation was very bad, and they made many films showing heroic Negroes and now the situation is much better. The people are not so much agitated by seeing Negroes. They think "Oh, now a Negro has some good qualities." Because of these films they have come to appreciate. So like that, if a devotee is a hero they will also appreciate.
Prabhupāda: Do they? I don't appreciate. I don't think the Negro question is solved.
Jñānagamya: No, it's not, but it is making steps to that end.
Prabhupāda: The whites, they do not like the Negroes still. Wherever there are Negroes, in that quarter the whites do not go in. So is it not? They do not go. Although they have been given equal right, but at heart the whites, they do not like it. Is there any improvement? I don't think. Officially, "Yes, yes, you are good, I am good."